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Another doctor, Che Guevara, once remarked that a man knows what he is going to die for before he is 15 years old, and the youthful Allende cast his lot with the poor of Chile, the workers, the campesinos in the countryside--and the children, always the children. His thesis, written between prison terms and anti-government demonstrations, was on "Mental Health and Delinquency...
Salvador Allende was a medical student in Santiago when he helped form the Socialist Party of Chile in the early 1930s. He served briefly as Minister of Health in a left-leaning government in the late thirties, attempting to distribute milk nationwide to ward off gnawing malnutrition...
...losing narrowly both times before finally winning the office in 1970. He entered the Moneda Presidential Palace amid rumors of international intervention and rightest moves against his Popular Unity Coalition of six Left parties. Despite the threat from the Right, Allende and his supporters revolutionized Chile in their brief stay in power. Led by Popular Unity and other Left groups, Chile nationalized the industries of the North American plunderers, redistributed land and income and expanded the scope of popular decision-making in the factories and the communities. Hundreds of thousands of Chileans regularly clogged the streets in Santiago to demonstrate...
Throughout all this, Allende avoided the role of popular liberator. He always realized that he only made history as long as he embodied the aspirations of the people of Chile. He was never a chief or a leader, but was known to Chileans as el companero presidente--comrade president...
...dedicated man, whose acts, even to the end, never swerved from his ideals. But most of all, Salvador Allende was a good and decent man, a simpatico hombre, whose agony at the suffering he saw about him was matched only by his smiling determination to banish it from Chile forever...